Search Details

Word: lapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Channing of Boston, Chairman of the Racing Committee of the New England Sled Dog Club, who beat Seppalla's time on the second day's run but lost to him on the average of the two days' time, because his harness had broken on the first lap. Hiram Mason was third. He was driving for the Taylor-Mason kennels at Tamworth, N. H., of which the other member is Mosely Taylor, President of the New England Sled Dog Club, an amateur who since 1921 has helped finance races. Fourth was Mrs. E. P. Ricker, of Poland Spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mush | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...nerve by indicating that she liked him. The night he was to make his comeback, he saw her kissing the other lion-tamer. Later, drunk, he was mortally wounded rescuing his rival from a hungry lion and died with his head in the tight-rope walker's lap. Not new, not dull, not convincing, not unconvincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...less than a week the outcome will be in the lap of the gods and all Harvard supporters. Mr. Bingham has proved that he has the courage of his convictions, and has a right to expect unanimous support in his struggles with the elusive new plant. The walls, rising brick on brick, will soon lend tangibility to a cause which heretofore has suffered from uncertainty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVE TOOK A CHANCE | 12/21/1928 | See Source »

...tomorrow the fruit of earnest conferences, intricate bookkeeping, and subtle diplomacy will drop dead ripe into the lap of many an undergraduate. From the man who makes a four hour glide to New Haven in his Packard to the seven passengers of an especially resurrected 1920 Ford all have spent a considerable time in a contemplation of ways and means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOWING THE BALL | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...Waldman, 1, sons of Milton S. Waldman, assistant editor of the London Mercury, grandsons & heirs of the late copper tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim who perished on the Titanic; in a 14-story fall from a penthouse roof; in Manhattan. Mrs. Waldman (Barbara Hazel Guggenheim) held the younger son on her lap when a tussle caused the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next